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Indigenous Peoples in Peru
The Indigenous peoples in Peru (pueblos indĂgenas in Spanish) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country's present territory prior to its discovery by Europeans around 1500. Like Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East Indies, the first Spanish explorers called them Ăndios ("Indians"), a name that is still used today in Peru.
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